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WASHINGTON— Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told Congress on Wednesday that he will extend for another three months the authority he is using to take emergency measures to keep from breaching the nation's borrowing limit. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the bookkeeping maneuvers should keep the government's borrowing below the new limit...

Lew set off a furor in June by announcing a redesign of the $10 bill that would replace the portrait of Alexander Hamilton with a woman. Lew said while a woman's portrait will be placed on the $10 bill, Hamilton will still be honored in some way. He said the redesign of the $10 bill will be just the first in a series of redesigns of the currency to make the U.S. bills safer...

WASHINGTON— The 11 million Americans who receive Social Security disability face steep benefit cuts next year, the government said Wednesday, handing lawmakers a fiscal and political crisis in the middle of a presidential campaign. The trustees who oversee Social Security and Medicare said the disability trust fund will run out of money in late 2016. That...

The requirements also are aimed at encouraging the Wall Street mega-banks to shrink so they pose less risk to the financial system. The banks include JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America. JPMorgan is the only one that doesn't already meet the requirements, which will be phased in from 2016 through 2018 and take full effect on Jan. 1, 2019.

May 11- The U.S. government on Monday said MetLife Inc's lawsuit fighting its designation as being systemically important to the economy, often referred to as "too big to fail," should be dismissed. MetLife had in January became the first nonbank to challenge a decision by the Financial Stability Oversight Council, a panel led by Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, that...

WASHINGTON- U.S. Treasury Department will host its annual State Small Business Credit Initiative conference. NEW YORK- Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams speaks on the economic outlook before the New York Association for Business Economics- 1645 GMT. WASHINGTON- Former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan speaks before the 17th...

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew talks to CNBC's Sara Eisen about the US economy and how there can be stronger growth around the world. The US is doing better than most other countries around the world, he says.